Category Archives: British Columbia
Home staging companies forced to adapt as sellers pull back in slow housing market
TORONTO - One walk through a home tells Rachael Stafford what adjustments are needed to pique the interest of potential buyers. For Stafford, the founder and creative director of organizing and stagin...
Jan 28, 2024
One dead, three arrested after alleged hit-and-run in Surrey, B.C.: RCMP
SURREY, B.C. - RCMP in Metro Vancouver say one person is dead and three people have been arrested after a hit-and-run early this morning. A statement from Surrey RCMP says officers responded at around...
Jan 27, 2024
In an RV outside Walmart, a senior dreams of housing as 'dramatic reversal' plays out
VANCOUVER - Seventy-seven-year-old Keith Light is back at home in a recreational vehicle outside a Walmart in East Vancouver, having recently been discharged from hospital after an accident. He's glad...
Jan 27, 2024
Atmospheric rivers roll over B.C., melting snow and triggering flood warnings
VANCOUVER - Balmy weather and a series of rainstorms forecast for British Columbia's South Coast have set off flood advisories for rivers, streams and low-lying areas. Environment Canada says a series...
Jan 27, 2024
Parts of B.C. under flood watch as atmospheric rivers wash over South Coast
VANCOUVER - Environment Canada has improved its warning systems since the last flooding disaster in B.C., and Premier David Eby says it will be on top of the latest series of atmospheric rivers rollin...
Jan 26, 2024
Killer Ibrahim Ali to be moved from psychiatric hospital to detention centre: judge
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled that Ibrahim Ali should be removed from the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has been held throughout his first-degree murder trial. ...
Jan 26, 2024
B.C. Health Minister announces appointment of new seniors advocate
VICTORIA - B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix says the province's new seniors advocate is Dan Levitt, an adjunct professor of gerontology at Simon Fraser University and the head of a non-profit long-term...
Jan 26, 2024
B.C. to restrict cellphones in schools to protect kids from online harm
SURREY - British Columbia is moving to restrict the use of cellphones in schools as part of measures Premier David Eby says will help protect young people from online threats. Eby said the government ...
Jan 26, 2024
Rogers Sugar reaches tentative deal with Vancouver refinery workers
VANCOUVER - Rogers Sugar Inc. says it has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing workers at its Vancouver refinery. Details of the tentative deal were not immediately available. The...
Jan 26, 2024
Alberni has 3rd highest death rate in BC
While BC's overdose death rate went up by 5% in 2023, and the central island was up by 23%, Port Alberni's overdose death rate was up by more than 32% compared to 2022. According to this week's provin...
Jan 26, 2024